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I like this method best - it allows the other critters - worms, snails and crabs - a chance to cleanup after dark - no waste

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Chris - any update on your ICK attack? I hope they both pull through /George

Sorry - it won't pass the test

Tomorrow marks the 1-year anniversary of me adding my first fish. After I cycled my tank in a humane way, I added 4 YT Damsels. They have all survived and look to be doing well. My personal favorites since mine don't seem to be too aggressive. For fun, I ran a Quicken report on my expenditures. It wasn't fun and I wont do it again for a long while On the other hand, I have a Domino Damsel that I spent a few hours today trying to catch. The score after one day is Damsel 1 -- George 0 A general "Thank You" to WAMAS as well since the collective "group" has helped make this hobby more enjoyale.

Steve: You may never know what happened, but this has happended to others. I had a very similar event 6 months ago when I bought a Flame Angel and Ocellaris clown. They were in perfect health for 25 days - then were looking ill for 1 1/2 days and then died within 12 hours of each other. It was 2 month latter that I added a new fish and I have not had another loss (well one fish jumped). Good luck and I am sorry for your losses.

It is sad to lose a fish. It's a good sign that we never get used to it.

Please put me down for the 1 bag of crushed coral and the Royal Gramma Could you send a pic of the mushrooms? Thanks /George Royal Gramma, about 3 inches, frequently harassed by tank mates, $10 Rock full of mushroom polyps $30 Rock with 6 or so mushroom polyps $20 2 x 40 lbs bags of Carib Sea Crushed coral, brand new and still in original bags, $13 each. Retail cost was $27 each

purple mushrooms and green mushrooms- green speckled mushrooms Lee - I would love to buy a few of these from you. LMK if OK Thanks /George

I am interested in purchasing some mushrooms - any color is OK; Loose is OK too. /George

I used a similar recipe but I used crushed Oyster shells from Booth Feeds. The rock is very porous. I would only buy a small box of cement mix since a little goes a long way. And yes,it does take a VERY long time to cure.

The Domino Damsel is aggresive. A peace treaty exists between him and the tang, flame and clowns, but he bothers the rest. Nothing visious, just sport. My YT Damsels have all claimed a space, but are generally peaceful. I will have to check the date, but my tank is almost 1 year old.

In a 125 (6 Ft) I have: Yellow tang Flame angel 2 Ocellaris Clowns chalk Baslett 3 PJ Cardinals 6 Green Chromis Domino Damsel a 3-striped Damsel 4 Yellow-tail Damsels

I have a setup with 3 x 250w MH. One of the ballasts looks to be non-functional. The are all the Coralife Magnetic Ballasts. I am wondering if this is somewhat common. Likely cause? and can they be repaired by a "resonably compenent" person. Does it make sense to replace with electronic ballast or another magnetic ballast if needed? TIA /George

I like the general logic that if you want a 48" tank then go with a 90gal rather than a 55. Divide the 55 into a sump and refugium.

I've moved him under a little more light since he may have been shaded some. I'll make sure he gets fed too. My temp has varied between 79 and 83 but with summer over, I should be able to keep that steady now. Wish me luck!

Save a tiger conch for me too - I'll get it on Sunday when I pick up a boz of salt. Thanks /George

I could use a little advice re a Scroll coral I picked up at the WAMAS / RK social from dbartco. It's been 3 mths or so and I have just noticed white tips in the past few days. I know that for some corals this is bad and for some it's a good thing. This is my first pic post so be kind TIA - I have a 250w HN 10" above water and this coral is 12" below waterline

Johnny - Please put me down for 1 box. Great work!

125 reef 29 sump/refuge 154 total

(CNSNews.com) - People sweltering from a heat wave in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. might find cold comfort in the fact that the temperatures of the past few days are not the hottest on record. That "honor" belongs to a summer 76 years ago -- decades before the controversy over "man-made global warming" began. "From June 1 to August 31, 1930, 21 days had high temperatures that were 100 degrees or above" in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, Patrick Michaels, senior fellow for environmental studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, told Cybercast News Service. "That summer has never been approached, and it's not going to be approached this year." Between July 19 and Aug. 9 of that year, heat records were set on nine days and they remain unbroken more than three-quarters of a century later. "That's hot," added Michaels, who also serves as professor of natural resources at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va. The summer of 1930 also marked the beginning of the longest drought of the 20th century. In 1934, dry regions stretched from New York and Pennsylvania across the Great Plains to California. A "dust bowl" covered about 50 million acres in the south-central plains during the winter of 1935-1936. However, the first six months of this year were the hottest across the nation since the federal government began keeping records in 1890, according to Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who told NBC News that about 50 all-time high-temperature records were broken during the month of July. But Michaels noted that high temperatures are common in the middle of the summer. "Climatologically, the last week in July is the warmest week of the year on average, and when the atmospheric flow patterns get into anomalously warm configurations during this time of the year, temperatures will skyrocket," he said. Along with an unusual upper-air pattern, the Washington, D.C., area "was exceedingly dry" during the summer of 1930, Michaels stated. "Generally speaking, when the ground is moist here, temperatures cap out in the high 90s," he noted. "That's because the sun's energy is divided into evaporating water and directly heating the surface. If the surface is dry, then everything goes into heating the surface, and you get exceedingly hot temperatures like you saw in 1930. "Big cities are getting warmer -- with or without global warming -- because the bricks and the buildings and the pavement retain heat," Michaels added. For that reason, he prefers to compare temperatures in nearby rural areas. "There's been very little change" in those areas, "so we trust the record to be a reliable indicator of base climate." Residents of the nation's capital can look forward to some relief, as weather forecasts for the weekend call for a cooling trend. "If we were going to go into the 100s -- the 103 and 104 degree range -- we would have done it, but there's just a little bit too much moisture in the surface to allow that to happen," Michaels said. He noted, however, that temperatures are expected to rise again next week. The mid-summer temperatures have provided more opportunities for environmentalists subscribing to the theory that man is responsible for the current global warming. Jay Gulledge, senior research fellow for science and impacts at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, told NBC News on Wednesday that "this heat wave and other extreme events we've seen in recent years are completely consistent with what we expect to become more common as a result of global warming, even though we can't be definitive on any single event." Michaels acknowledged that "global temperatures have been warming slightly for several decades" and noted that the surface of the world "is a little bit warmer than it was in the 1930s" even though "temperatures dropped between 1940 and 1975." "Usually, the way the jet stream breaks out is very hot in the East and relatively cool in the West or vice versa," he said. "This time around, it looks more like the summers of the 1930s," but he dismissed the idea that the extreme temperatures of that time were caused by man-made "global warming" since "it wasn't around then." Although the recent heat wave have not convinced Michaels that "global warming" is a severe problem, it was apparently enough to make a "convert" out of conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson. "We really need to address the burning of fossil fuels," Robertson said during his "700 Club" broadcast on Thursday. The high temperatures in some regions of the U.S. East are "the most convincing evidence I've seen on global warming in a long time," he added.

The bags are the same but it did not pass the vinegar fizz test for me. Ahh Shucks.

The Food Lion in Fair Lakes has plenty

I had to stop at the Southern States in Manassas today and on the way out I saw bags od "Old Castle Kolor scape sand. I didn't have time to go back in and buy a bag - but it looked VERY fine grained. Has anybody tested this stuff for fizzzzz? LMK TIA George

I have a 125 (6 ft) tank with a Yellow Tang and 12 other fish. The others are all about 2 inches now and just about full grown. I want to add one more fish that will grow to 5+ inches. I have the tank filled with arounf 175 lbs of rock and I have some corals as well. I am thinking that a Kole Tang would be ideal since it is a different body tupe and color than the Yellow tang. Will this association work? Is there a better choice that is reef-safe? TIA for help!